Woo, got my apartment finalized this morning. I will no longer be the homeless law school student! I got a hell of a deal too; I was bumped up to a better floor plan for the lower price since they ran out of the smaller units. I have to get liability insurance on my apt though; is that a law in NC or just a peculiarity of my apt complex?

Reedie wrote:Curious how little then that DC seems to be a home market for Duke, eh?

Wish there were some current 2L and 3L students lurking to answer this....but I'll try to give it a shot based on my research re Duke's placement...

The largest percentage of Duke's graduates place into NYC with a close second into DC - this primarily by self-selection. Rather than saturating or dominating a particular market (enough to be considered a "home" market) Duke has more of a "national" reach...and even an "international" reach into foreign countries...

I can only speak to my limited experience with the hiring practices of the V25 law firm here....which hires a few graduates from a handful of top law schools - Duke included as one of those schools....diversity is the key - one school does not dominate this firm. Coming from Duke with the small class size, one will be at an advantage in DC in comparison to Georgetown with a HUGE class size which saturates the DC market...point being - our DC office doesn't hire more graduates from Georgetown just because the school is in DC.....

Jericwithers wrote:Woo, got my apartment finalized this morning. I will no longer be the homeless law school student! I got a hell of a deal too; I was bumped up to a better floor plan for the lower price since they ran out of the smaller units. I have to get liability insurance on my apt though; is that a law in NC or just a peculiarity of my apt complex?

My complex appears to require that as well. Of course, we could be talking about the same complex...

Jericwithers wrote:Woo, got my apartment finalized this morning. I will no longer be the homeless law school student! I got a hell of a deal too; I was bumped up to a better floor plan for the lower price since they ran out of the smaller units. I have to get liability insurance on my apt though; is that a law in NC or just a peculiarity of my apt complex?

My complex appears to require that as well. Of course, we could be talking about the same complex...

My place won't let us move in without proof of renter's insurance.

EDIT: By the way, you should read through your renter's insurance policy when they mail it to you. Ours had some really comical sections about nuclear war, rioting, and the like.

paralegal wrote:The largest percentage of Duke's graduates place into NYC with a close second into DC - this primarily by self-selection. Rather than saturating or dominating a particular market (enough to be considered a "home" market) Duke has more of a "national" reach...and even an "international" reach into foreign countries...

That definitely seems to be the case. Duke doesn't really have a home market that dominates their recruiting. I'm guessing that students who choose to go to Duke are fairly flexible geographically. Most of the people in this thread seem to be.

Now that I think about it, maybe DC really doesn't have a hometown school in the same way Chicago (Northwestern), New York (NYU, Columbia, Cornell) , or California (Cal, Stanford, SC, UCLA) do. Georgetown is in DC, but don't [strike]most Georgetown grads wind up working in NYC[/strike] more Georgetown grads wind up working in NYC than DC?

Reedie wrote:Georgetown is in DC, but don't most Georgetown grads wind up working in NYC more Georgetown grads wind up working in NYC than DC?

A while back on TLS, I actually saw a graph of the percentage of Georgetown grads into specific markets.....even if we go with your assumption "that more place into NYC'..... Georgetown certainly saturates the DC market simply by their HUGE class size and by their DC location -

considering the diversity preference in this firm - hiring from a handful of top law schools -the preference that one school does not dominate, coming from Duke with the small class size, in the DC market, I think you're going to have an advantage....

paralegal wrote:considering the diversity preference in this firm - hiring from a handful of top law schools -the preference that one school does not dominate, coming from Duke with the small class size, in the DC market, I think you're going to have an advantage....

los blancos wrote:Any other Northerners in here really happy about not having to deal with winter anymore?

I'm worried about dealing with the winter in North Carolina. There's actually an expectation that it will snow at least a little bit every single year.

With how much its been snowing in my parts of Texas in recent years I am not really too worried about the snow (kind of excited). However, you will see me on the news promo about cars sliding into ditches because they don't know how to drive in the snow.

Reedie wrote:Curious how little then that DC seems to be a home market for Duke, eh?

Wish there were some current 2L and 3L students lurking to answer this....but I'll try to give it a shot based on my research re Duke's placement...

The largest percentage of Duke's graduates place into NYC with a close second into DC - this primarily by self-selection. Rather than saturating or dominating a particular market (enough to be considered a "home" market) Duke has more of a "national" reach...and even an "international" reach into foreign countries...

I can only speak to my limited experience with the hiring practices of the V25 law firm here....which hires a few graduates from a handful of top law schools - Duke included as one of those schools....diversity is the key - one school does not dominate this firm. Coming from Duke with the small class size, one will be at an advantage in DC in comparison to Georgetown with a HUGE class size which saturates the DC market...point being - our DC office doesn't hire more graduates from Georgetown just because the school is in DC.....

Since you all seem to be worried about placement across the country, I've compiled stats of where folks are spending their 2L summer right now. Enjoy.

Reedie wrote:Curious how little then that DC seems to be a home market for Duke, eh?

Wish there were some current 2L and 3L students lurking to answer this....but I'll try to give it a shot based on my research re Duke's placement...

The largest percentage of Duke's graduates place into NYC with a close second into DC - this primarily by self-selection. Rather than saturating or dominating a particular market (enough to be considered a "home" market) Duke has more of a "national" reach...and even an "international" reach into foreign countries...

I can only speak to my limited experience with the hiring practices of the V25 law firm here....which hires a few graduates from a handful of top law schools - Duke included as one of those schools....diversity is the key - one school does not dominate this firm. Coming from Duke with the small class size, one will be at an advantage in DC in comparison to Georgetown with a HUGE class size which saturates the DC market...point being - our DC office doesn't hire more graduates from Georgetown just because the school is in DC.....

Since you all seem to be worried about placement across the country, I've compiled stats of where folks are spending their 2L summer right now. Enjoy.

paralegal wrote:the bigger picture - national placement into several US legal markets

is why at the end of Masochistic's post of the stats, he writes...."enjoy."

Sure, I was actually encouraged by the statistics. They are certainly a bit different than the stats from previous years, but let's face it, this is a very different legal market than law students faced in previous years. I'm encouraged by the fact that 65% of the 2L class got firm jobs with about 40% landing V100 gigs.

What that should translate to for all you up and coming 1Ls is that if you land somewhere around median, you have a pretty damn good shot at breaking into BigLaw (if that's your goal).